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ESPN boosts WSOP coverage in wake of Black Friday

In the wake of the April 15 shutdown of online poker in the United States, many poker tournaments — offline and online — underwent some serious last-minute rescheduling, revamping, and even outright cancellation. It may come as a welcome relief, then, that ESPN's TV coverage of the granddaddy of all poker tournaments, the World Series…

Black Friday, 3 weeks later: Where are the players?

Besides today’s breaking news that authorities have raided PokerStars.com’s Costa Rica offices, here’s what else is happening in the online poker world in the wake of the April 15 FBI shutdown. First, the ridiculous … The most hair-raising of all the surprises over the past few weeks isn’t the online poker shutdown, or the death…

Breaking news: PokerStars offices raided in Costa Rica

Casino Affiliate Programs has learned that the Costa Rica offices of the world's largest online poker site, PokerStars, has been raided today by local authorities, presumably in connection with the United States Department of Justice, although that has yet to be confirmed. "PokerStars continues to operate the world's largest poker room, business as usual," a…

State-by-state update: The road to U.S. regulation, May 5, 2011

Three weeks after the U.S. government’s dramatic crackdown on online poker, Colorado may be entering the race to regulate online gambling in the U.S., joining a list of states that includes California, Nevada, Florida, and, yes, still New Jersey and Iowa. (Washington, D.C. has already done so.) Colorado “Colorado casinos commissioned a recently released study…

Australia may ban online betting

Lawmakers worldwide continue to struggle with the idea of regulated online gambling. More and more are realizing its revenue potential, while a handful remain bitterly against gambling in all its forms. At a time when even U.S. Senator Jon Kyl may be considering softening his anti-gambling stance, count Australian senator Nick Xenophon as among those…